Tranter Revolver

Tranter Model 1868 Army - .450 Adams

Tranter revolver (Second Model with single trigger), from the collection of General JEB Stuart

Tranter 54-bore self-cocking revolver

Tranter Model 1878 Army - .450

The Tranter revolver was a double-action cap & ball revolver invented around 1856 by English firearms designer William Tranter (1816–1890). Originally operated with a special dual-trigger mechanism (one to rotate the cylinder and cock the gun, a second to fire it) later models employed a single-trigger mechanism much the same as that found in the contemporary Beaumont-Adams revolver.

Early Tranter revolvers were generally versions of the various Robert Adams-designed revolver models, of which Tranter had produced in excess of 8000 revolvers by 1853. The first model of his own design used the frame of an Adams-type revolver, with a modification in the mechanism which he had jointly developed with James Kerr. The first model was sold under the name Tranter-Adams-Kerr.

Specifications

(c.1854-c.1880)

• Type: Revolver

• Length of barrel: ?

• Weight empty: approx 2.4lb (1.1 kg),

• Caliber: ?

• Capacity: 5 or 6

• Action: Double Action

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Hannie Caulder	Raquel Welch	Hannie Caulder		1971
River of Death	L.Q. Jones	Eddie Hiller		1989
River of Death	Herbert Lom	Col. Diaz		1989
River of Death	Norman Anstey	Tracy		1989
Ip Man	Gordon Lam Ka-tung	Li Zhao	Tranter 1879	2008

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note	Air Date
Wild Boys	Jeremy Sims	Francis	third model	2011